ju|y

EP 2009 // download // buy

July was produced in the 45 days preceding my prison sentence, and as my father died of liver cancer. The music borrows from the randomization style of =rand, applying them to ideas that have had a longer time to develop. I suppose the successful completetion of =rand inspired me to try a more thorough venture before leaving for prison.

tracklist

  1. II
  2. III
  3. VII
  4. VIII
  5. IX
  6. X
  7. XIII
  8. XIX
  9. XXX

The music was understandably hastened and feels incomplete at times. This was not deliberate, but I feel that it captures the mood of that period of time. I never made any attempt to capture my emotions or represent them. The work is more subtle in the sense that it was put together during the time that all of these events were going on, and proximates what I was going through at the time.

As I began running out of time and the stress took away my creative drive, I began hiding pieces of every track into every other track as an improvisational development tool. I felt like shit for the most part, and the work is an accurate reflection in that respect; it is unfinished in the same way that a wound is an unfinished scar.

My own recollection of how this album sounds is tenuous. I literally finished it the night before dropping off the face of the earth.